parentage

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Descent from parents; lineage: of humble parentage.

n. The state or relationship of being a parent.

n. Derivation from a source; origin.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Of or pertaining to one's parents, and in particular, the legitimacy of one's birth.

n. The social quality of your class in society.

n. origin; derivation

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Descent from parents or ancestors; parents or ancestors considered with respect to their rank or character; extraction; birth.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Derivation from parents: as, the parentage of a child; in general, birth; origin: as, the parentage of an animal or a plant: by extension, derivation from an author or source: as, the parentage of a book, or of a legislative bill.

n. Specifically, condition with respect to the rank or character of parents or ancestors: as, a person of mean parentage; a man of noble parentage.

n. Parents collectively.

n. The parental relationship as exhibited in the recognition and care of children.

Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just down river from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the street - a pariah and an outcast.

Growing up spoiled in a life of luxury just down river from the Taj Mahal, at fifteen the news of Pran's true parentage is revealed to his father and he is tossed out into the streeta pariah and an outcast.

Having already been burned on the Rove-is-indicted and the Iranian Jewish-star stories last month, I am certainly willing to read and discuss alternate points of view on this story, ratchet up my healthy skepticism, and I am more than happy to do it in a civil discourse as opposed to some of the more energetic methods at other blogs and sites wherein the writer's parentage is called into question and accusations of indecent conduct with certain barnyard creatures are levelled.

When, in a rare lucid moment, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor must enlist the aid of his best friend, Denny, a recovering chronic masturbator, and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall, to solve this mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.